First came the youngest, males between 15 and 25 years old, of Moroccan nationality, wearing wetsuits. Next, people up to 40 years old, family groups, and small children, mostly in sportswear and flip-flops. And lastly, the sub-Saharan Africans. The thousands of migrants who irregularly crossed the Ceuta border at the end of July did not do so spontaneously and disorderly, but following a “plan” that the National Police attribute to Morocco and describe as a tactic, in the report sent to the judge of the National Court María Tardón and which La Vanguardia has accessed.

Five days, with their long sleepless nights, without knowing anything about them. Families who have no news of their young people who went to Ceuta, following the call that the border to Spain was open, are flooding social networks with photographs of the missing. There is one of Mohamed Afasi, in swim trunks, with a towel around his neck: he disappeared in the sea at the age of nine while trying to swim around the breakwater with his mother. There is another of the teenager Nada-AlShiba, who was lost track of in the early hours of the mass jump through which 72,000 people entered at once.

Italy has decided to extend border controls for another 15 days on passengers arriving by plane and ship from Spain. The temporary suspension of Schengen between the two countries, introduced last August 1 due to the Ceuta migration crisis, was set to expire this Monday, August 31, but Giorgia Meloni’s government has ultimately chosen to maintain the measure until September 15. The initial intention of the Executive was to extend the controls for another month, but a two-week extension was finally chosen for technical reasons.

The judge of the National Court María Tardón has agreed to investigate the massive irregular entry in Ceuta on July 30 and 31 as a serious attack against the territorial integrity of Spain and affecting the peace or independence of the State.